try this site for flavors ingredients
[url]http://www.northernbrewer.com/beer-flavorings.html[/url]

"Bill Velek" <billvelek@alltel.net> wrote in message
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> On the spur of the moment, I thought of brewing a pumpkin beer today.
> Don't have any fresh pumpkin, but I do have canned; however, there is
> nothing on the label to indicate whether it has any preservatives, so
> I'm thinking that it probably _doesn't_ ... but I don't want to take a
> chance; besides, my brewing book says not to use 'canned' pumpkin with
> preservatives. So I thought of making a cherry beer instead using
> cherry pie filling. Besides the ingredients which I know are alright,
> it lists citric and ascorbic acids (I think they are okay) and 'sodium
> citrate' and 'red 40 color' (I presume dye won't be a problem either).
> I did a google for sodium citrate and read enough to see that it is
> sometimes used as a preservative. I don't know what the concentration
> is in the can, but we're talking about a 21 oz. can in a 5 gallon batch,
> so it will become very diluted. I'm tempted to just give it a try, but
> thought I'd at least see what sort of replies I might get while my water
> is heating up.
>
> Thanks for any advice anyone can provide.
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